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A soccer ball rests on grass with red pixelated text reading 'soccer is life.' on a green background.

A soccer ball rests on grass with red pixelated text reading 'soccer is life.' on a green background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • soccer ball on left
  • text on right
  • centered text below ball

Dense Caption

A pixelated soccer ball with black pentagonal and white hexagonal panels sits on a textured green grass background. To the right of the ball, red pixelated text reads 'soccer' at the top and 'life.' at the bottom. Centered below the ball, red pixelated text reads 'is'. The entire scene is set against a solid bright green background. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • A soccer ball rests on grass with red pixelated text reading 'soccer is life.' on a green background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20071122212757108695350

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soccer ball grass green background
  • soccer is life pixelated text
  • retro digital soccer icon
  • green background red text soccer

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: black and white panels

Visible Text

  • soccer
  • is
  • life.

Wordwall

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  • grass background
  • red pixelated text
  • green background
  • soccer is life
  • pixelated art
  • retro digital
  • low resolution
  • black and white
  • text 'soccer'
  • text 'is'
  • text 'life.'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071122212757108695350
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
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v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
8a565c602f201f5e
SHA-256
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A soccer ball rests on grass with red pixelated text reading 'soccer is life.' on a green background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,976 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 656

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Colors

  • green
  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • soccer ball on left
  • text on right
  • centered text below ball

Dense Caption

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Description

  • A soccer ball rests on grass with red pixelated text reading 'soccer is life.' on a green background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20071122212757108695350

Mood

  • enthusiastic

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  • soccer is life pixelated text
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  • life.

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  • green background
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Full source records (1)
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20071122212757108695350
Archive entry
20071122212757108695350.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture
Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071122212757108695350.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071122212757108695350.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016